Eli Manning currently dealing with some legal issues after it was revealed he has been active in selling fake game-worn merchandise to memorabilia buyers.

Giants also dealing with similar legal issues after an equipment manager was outed as helping Manning with the scam.

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Originally Posted by NY Post

Giants quarterback Eli Manning was in on a scheme to sell phony game-worn gear — sending an email asking the team’s equipment manager for “helmets that can pass as game used,” according to blockbuster court papers obtained by The Post.

The legal filing also alleges that Big Blue failed to produce the smoking-gun request — sent from Manning’s old-school AOL account to an official NFL account — even though “they claim to have no document destruction policy.”

But Manning turned over the incriminating email last week in connection with a civil racketeering suit that accuses him, his team and others of conspiring to fleece collectors of authentic athletic uniforms worn on the playing field.

Manning’s email is contained in a pair of exchanges that allegedly began when his marketing agent, Alan Zucker, asked Manning to supply “2 game used helmets and 2 game used jerseys” as per the two-time Super Bowl MVP’s contract with memorabilia dealer Steiner Sports.

Several hours after Zucker sent the request on April 27, 2010, Giants equipment manager Joe Skiba sent Manning an email saying: “Let me know what your looking for I’ll try to get something down for you…,” court papers say.

“2 helmets that can pass as game used. That is it. Eli,” Manning allegedly responded from his BlackBerry at 2:08 p.m.

At 2:25 p.m., Manning wrote back to Zucker, saying: “Should be able to get them for tomorrow.”

Giants got dragged into the lawsuit because they forgot to delete one email between Eli and the equipment manager out of all the emails deleted on this topic. Had they also deleted that email, there would have been no known concrete or strong evidence of what Eli was doing for the scam.

Police in Mesa, Arizona, confirmed Friday that former Baltimore Ravens and Arizona Cardinals tight end Todd Heap accidentally hit and killed his three-year-old daughter with his truck, according to ABC 15's Clayton Klapper and Joe Bartels.

The accident reportedly occurred on Heap's driveway. Per Fox 10 in Phoenix, the victim "was taken to a local hospital, where she later died."

Police also said "there were no suspicious circumstances to the incident, and that impairment does not appear to be a factor."

Seriously, it's the dumbest fucking rule in football. If you control the ball and make a football move, it's a catch. If you have the catch, by those rules, and then reach for the goalline, it's a touchdown as soon as it crosses the plane.

... If the guy falls to the ground and the ball hits the ground and moves slightly after all of that has already happened, you basically retroactively did NOT catch the ball.

He did make a football move. He turned his body, went to a knee and lunged for the touchdown.

Like I said, if it happened to the Patriots, you'd be bitching because that's what you do. You defended Gronkowski assaulting a defenseless guy after a play, FFS. You're a Droford-level delusional homer. You don't get to have an opinion on this.

Chuck Pagano is expected to coach his final game with the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday. The team will begin its search for a new head coach upon the conclusion of the 2017 season, NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reports, citing sources.

Team owner Jim Irsay has already made calls to prepare, Rapoport adds.

Chris Ballard's first season as the Colts' general manager has resulted in a 3-12 campaign. It's expected he will instead opt to hand pick the next coach.

No one's arguing that it wasn't the right call. You're hearing things that don't mesh with your blind homer-ism and it's making your brain smoke and malfunction. Have a drink and try to comprehend the discussion.

Let's not forget the whole situation where you defended Rob Gronkowski intentionally concussing a man. Doesn't get much more blind homer-tastic than that. Your blind homerism shows as much as Droford's.

If Gronk is guilty of pass interference and it doesn't get called and the defender reacts by driving his elbow into Gronk's neck and head while he's on the ground defenseless and leaves him concussed, or worse, you'll totally defend that guy's actions, right?

Blind homer to an insane level. And THAT'S why your opinion on stuff like the Steelers non-catch doesn't matter.